Wood for eyeglasses! (eyeglass frames)

what a great idea!

to have wood be a material used on the sides of eyeglasses. I worry about adjustability or warping from moisture; however, the look is great. I saw some of these today while eyeglass frame shopping for Tammy (Dr. T. Tammy Wu, Plastic surgeon - Modesto Plastic surgeon) - we are still looking she hasn't found her next pair of eyeglass frames yet.

The frames were made by Iyoko Inyake - Belgian Eyewear design

http://www.iyokoinyake.com/es/default.aspx

From their website:

"Many years ago, Eye Specials Worldwide acquired the world wide license to design, manufacture en distribute eyewear under the name of Iyoko Inyaké.
Since then, Henricus Dujardin, with 20 years of experience, designed more than 800 models that have been sold all over the world.Together with his team of professionals he always comes up with the most creative frames in the industry. "

I took some pictures of a display that I found in Taipei Taiwan, near the Sogo Area, near the Fuxing MRT subway station. We were told that these were designed in Belgium and manufactured in Japan.

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Escalator orderliness in the Subway system Taipei

I noticed that the right side of the escalator is for standing, and the left side if for those in a rush and in need of passing. The rule is followed very very often - almost all the time.

It's refreshing to see such orderliness.

I thought I'd capture it here in a picture taken at the subway station MRT at the crossing of the blue (bannon) and brown lines. You can double click on this escalator picture to see a larger version of it.

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My clarisonic - we only brought one

Well, so much for my thinking in advance; we only brought one of these and two brushes. We've been sharing it. It saves space this way. The only problem is that ok.. right now we are both in Taipei, but I have to make a separate trip (subcursive?) to Hong Kong and Macau - I'll be gone and separated from my wife for a week. So that means - we have to fight over the clarisonic. This just hit me.

Clarisonic brush is a mechanized facial cleansing brush - waterproof, fun, efficient, and produces results. I feel lost without it. It's one of my favorite products which we carry in our office. It even showed an increase in my Visia score. I scored very low on the Visia to begin with, so that might not be saying much (I got 2%).

Clarisonic Modesto - this link has a list of our products in our office. Too bad I can't just run across to the globe to get another one.

Anyway... enough blabbing.. I'll figure out how to revert to the old way of washing my face. Can't take the Clarisonic away from the plastic surgeon wife: [T. Tammy Wu, MD]

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Hello from Taipei to Modesto, CA, USA

Greetings. While we're having fun in Taipei, Taiwan, we miss our work (yes, believe it or not), and our friends in Modesto, CA.

Here's a video of myself and Dr. Tammy Wu saying hello from Taiwan - just a little update to say that we are doing well.

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Bellavita Taipei, Taiwan

Picture of me taken 8/4/09 on our way to Taipei 101 Mall, we passed by a construction project with signs all around it saying "Bellavita - coming soon."

This will be a luxury shopping mall - the idea is to elevate shopping and dining experience in Taipei Taiwan. It contains classic Italian inspired architecture. It's not ready for the public to walk through it, unfortunately. This located in the heart of the Xinyi Shopping District.

Strings Magazine article with Calvin Lee

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I've always wanted to be in Strings Magazine. This is the inside back cover.

Click on the image above to get a larger image - you can then read the text...

This is / will be from the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine. Mark O'Connor is on the cover of the magazine.

Calvin Lee, violin website (just getting started on this)

Alain Mikli glasses - my new glasses

Ultimate nerd test: if you write a blog about your nerd glasses... yup that's me.

My new glasses are Alain Mikli glasses. I got them at Taipei 101, shopping malls, in Taipei, Taiwan where they had a Alain Mikli Boutique - tel 886-2-2748-6108. Their email is shop.taipei@mikliasia.com.hk. I got the alain mikli A0642-23 frame. Titanium frames. This is my first pair of Titanium eyeglass - it's just for the front of the eyeglasses - the sides are plastic. My previous glasses were also Alain Mikli glasses - I was happy with them. It was time for a new pair since my vision shifted and I had dropped the old glasses a few times. Plus it had some wear and tear from placing laser goggles on top of them. I suspect it will continue to be a similar problem this time with the new frames. These frames have an even wider lens than the old ones. These lens measure "55" across. I'm not sure what the units are, but I suspect it would be in mm. I picked these up on 8/1/09. My blog on my previous pair of eyeglasses, Modesto.

My prescription is now:

PD 69.5 (pupillary distance)

R: -6.00, -1.50, 88
L: -7.00, -0.75, 142

The lens that I got was Hoya 1.7 Nulux-ep MC which cost 4550.00 NT each (includes VP coating on the lens, VP coating is supposed to make the lens easier to clean).

The pricing came out to 36820.00 NT

Previously about 1.3 years ago:

My prescription was (1.3 years ago) - so my prescription is now changing in the other direction.

R: -650 - 125 x 088
L: -725 -075 x 148

The picture above is from the web, but it is of the actual Alain Mikli glasses that I had purchased, and am wearing while typing up this blog!


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